Ten to See: London
ArtReview
January 2017
For serious meditations on colour look in on Brazilian artist Fernanda Gomes’s solo exhibition of paintings – just don’t expect to see actual colours. This might be to do with Gomes having spent the past 30 years researching the light spectrum, and while white light refracts into different hues, it’s the sum of all colours that is used exclusively in Gomes’s work.
Add to this the question of what defines a painting (Gomes creates dialogues between ‘autonomous pieces, made of canvas, wood and paint’) or how paintings are experienced and you might find yourself reevaluating your perceptions of colour and form in the everyday. […